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{{Infobox scientist
|name = Pranab Kumar Sen
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|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1937|11|07}}
|birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India|India]]
|residence = [[Chapel Hill, NC]]
|citizenship = [[United States]]
|death_date =
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|field = [[Statistics]]
|work_institution = [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]
|alma_mater = [[University of Calcutta]] ([[B.Sc.]], [[M.Sc.]], [[Ph.D.]])
|doctoral_students = {{plainlist|1=
*[[Vernon Chinchilli]]
*[[Malay Ghosh]]
*[[Katherine Monti]]
*[[Susan Murphy]]
}}
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'''Pranab Kumar Sen''' (born 7 November 1937 in [[Calcutta]], [[British India|India]])<ref name="cv">[http://www.sph.unc.edu/images/stories/cv_storage/704289903_cv.pdf Curriculum vitae] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720092739/http://www.sph.unc.edu/images/stories/cv_storage/704289903_cv.pdf |date=20 July 2011 }}, retrieved 2011-07-03.</ref> is a [[statistician]], a professor of statistics and the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Biostatistics at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]].<ref name="profile">[https://stat-or.unc.edu/people/faculty/pranab-sen Faculty profile], UNC Chapel Hill, retrieved 2011-07-03.</ref>

==Academic biography==
Sen was the second of seven siblings; his father, a railway officer, died of leukemia when Sen was ten, and he was raised by his mother, the daughter of a [[physician]].<ref name="gs08"/>
He began his undergraduate studies at [[Presidency University, Kolkata|Presidency College, Kolkata]], initially intending to study medicine but shifting to statistics when it was discovered that he was too young for medical college.<ref name="gs08"/> He received a B.S. from the [[University of Calcutta]] in 1955, an M.Sc. in 1957, and a Ph.D. in 1962;<ref name="cv"/><ref name="profile"/><ref>{{mathgenealogy|name=Pranab Kumar Sen|id=18736}}.</ref> his [[doctoral advisor]] was Hari Kinkar Nandi.<ref name="gs08"/> He taught for three years at the University of Calcutta and one more year at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] before joining the UNC faculty in 1965; although he has held visiting positions at other universities, he has remained at Chapel Hill for the rest of his career.<ref name="cv"/><ref name="profile"/> He was the founding co-editor of two journals, ''Sequential Analysis'' and ''Statistics and Decisions'',<ref name="gs08"/> and was joint editor-in-chief of the ''Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference'' from 1980 to 1983.<ref name="cv"/>

==Research and graduate advising==
Sen is the author or co-author of multiple books on [[non-parametric statistics]], the advisor of over 80 Ph.D. students, and the author of over 600 research publications.<ref name="cv"/><ref name="bps08"/> He is known for inventing the [[Hodges–Lehmann estimator]] independently of and contemporaneously with Hodges and Lehmann<ref name="gs08"/><ref>{{cite book| last=Lehmann|first=Erich L.|author-link=Erich Leo Lehmann|title=Nonparametrics: Statistical methods based on ranks|edition=Reprinting of 1988 revision of 1975 Holden-Day | publisher=Springer | location=New York|year=2006|isbn=978-0-387-35212-1|pages=176 and 200–201|mr=395032}}</ref> and for the [[Theil–Sen estimator]], a form of [[robust regression]] that fits a line to two-dimensional sample points by choosing the slope of the fit line to be the median of the slopes of the lines through pairs of samples.<ref>{{citation
| last1 = Rousseeuw | first1 = Peter J. | author1-link = Peter Rousseeuw
| last2 = Leroy | first2 = Annick M.
| isbn = 978-0-471-48855-2
| title-link = Robust Regression and Outlier Detection
| publisher = Wiley
| series = Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics
| title = Robust Regression and Outlier Detection
| at = [https://books.google.com/books?id=lK9gHXwYnqgC&pg=PA67 p. 67]
| volume = 516
| year = 2003}}.</ref><ref>{{citation
| last = Wilcox | first = Rand R.
| contribution = Theil–Sen estimator
| isbn = 978-0-387-95157-7
| pages = 207–210
| publisher = Springer-Verlag
| title = Fundamentals of Modern Statistical Methods: Substantially Improving Power and Accuracy
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=YSFb4QX2UIoC&pg=PA207
| year = 2001}}.</ref>

==Awards and honors==
Sen is a fellow of the [[Institute of Mathematical Statistics]]<ref>[http://www.imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm IMS Fellows] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302125855/http://www.imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm |date=2 March 2014 }}, retrieved 2011-07-03.</ref> and of the [[American Statistical Association]].<ref>[http://www.amstat.org/careers/fellowslist.cfm ASA Fellows], retrieved 2011-07-03.</ref> He became the Cary C. Boshamer Professor in 1982.<ref name="cv"/> He was the [[Lukacs Distinguished Professor|Lukacs Distinguished Visiting Professor]] at [[Bowling Green State University]] in 1996–1997.<ref>[http://bayes.bgsu.edu/lukacs/lukacs_profs.html Bowling Green State University: Eugene Lukacs Professors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812062403/http://bayes.bgsu.edu/lukacs/lukacs_profs.html |date=12 August 2011 }}, retrieved 2011-07-03.</ref> In 2002 he won the Gottfried E. Noether Senior Scholar Award of the American Statistical Association,<ref>[http://www.amstat.org/careers/gottfriednoetherawards.cfm Gottfried E. Noether Awards], retrieved 2011-07-03.</ref> and he was the 2010 winner of the [[Wilks Memorial Award]] of the ASA "for outstanding contributions to statistical research, especially in nonparametric statistics and biostatistics; and for exceptional service in mentoring doctoral students."<ref>[http://www.amstat.org/careers/samuelwilksaward.cfm Samuel S. Wilks Award]{{Dead link|date=May 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, retrieved 2011-07-03.</ref> The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]] in 2011.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref> In 2012, the [[University of Calcutta]] awarded him an [[List of University of Calcutta honorary degree recipients|honorary Doctor of Science]] degree.<ref>{{cite web|title=Annual Convocation|url=http://www.caluniv.ac.in/convocation-2012/hony_degrees.htm|publisher=[[University of Calcutta]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528004638/http://caluniv.ac.in/convocation-2012/hony_degrees.htm|archive-date=28 May 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

In 2007, a [[festschrift]] was dedicated to him on the occasion of his 70th birthday.<ref name="gs08">{{citation
| last1 = Ghosh | first1 = Malay
| last2 = Schell | first2 = Michael J.
| arxiv = 0906.4165
| doi = 10.1214/08-STS255
| issue = 4
| journal = Statistical Science
| pages = 548–564
| title = A Conversation with Pranab Kumar Sen
| volume = 23
| year = 2008| s2cid = 62558615
}}.</ref><ref name="bps08">{{citation
| last1 = Balakrishnan | first1 = N.
| last2 = Pena | first2 = E.
| last3 = Silvapulle | first3 = M. J.
| publisher = IMS
| contribution = Pranab Kumar Sen: Life and Works
| title = Beyond Parametrics in Interdisciplinary Research: Festschrift in Honor of Professor Pranab K. Sen
| pages = 1–16
| arxiv = 0805.2229
| doi = 10.1214/193940307000000013
| year = 2008| s2cid = 88512698
}}.</ref>

==References==
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